Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Introduction to Sedimentary Petrography: With Special Reference to Loose Detrital Deposits and Their Correlation by Petrographic Methods
As its title implies, the book is intended to serve simply as a. General introduction to the subject and its applications. A working knowledge of elementary crystallography and optical physics is assumed, this being an essential preliminary to all petrographical studies. In this connexion such standard works as Dana's System of Mineralogy or Iddings' Rock Minerals should, if necessary, be consulted.
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